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Child Tax Credit (Carlisle)

Mr. Martlew: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many families in Carlisle have received child tax credit. [191350]

Dawn Primarolo [holding answer 15 October 2004]: I refer my hon. Friend to my reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Wansdyke (Dan Norris) on 12 July 2004, Official Report, columns 922–23W.

Condoms

Sandra Gidley: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much revenue was generated from the VAT levy on condoms in the last year for which figures are available. [192367]

Dawn Primarolo: Customs do not collect data on VAT from individual goods and services.

Economic Activity (Yeovil)

Mr. Laws: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the economic activity rate was in Yeovil constituency in each year from 1985–86 to 2004–05. [192065]

Mr. Timms: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.

Letter from Len Cook to Mr. David Laws, dated 19 October 2004:

As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question about economic activity rates in Yeovil. (192065)

The attached table gives the estimates of the economic activity rates in the Yeovil Parliamentary Constituency for the twelve months ending February each year from 1997 to 2003. Estimates for earlier periods are not available.

As with any sample survey, estimates from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) are subject to sampling variability.

Economic activity for working age⁽¹⁰⁾ people resident in the Yeovil parliamentary constituency 12 months ending February each year from 1997 to 2003

	Rate (percentage) 2
1997	81.0
1998	82.1
1999	85.8
2000	86.8
2001	84.3
2002	82.5
2003	84.5

⁽¹⁰⁾ Men aged 16 to 64 and women aged 16 to 59.
⁽¹¹⁾ Working age economically active (i.e. employed plus unemployed) as a percentage of all persons of working age.
Source:
ONS Labour Force Survey

Economic Statistics (Yorkshire)

Hugh Bayley: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many children in (a) Yorkshire and Humber and (b) the City of York received child benefit (i) in 1997 and (ii) at the latest date for which figures are available; and what the weekly value of child benefit was in (A) 1997 and (B) October. [191220]

 
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Dawn Primarolo: I understand from the Department for Work and Pensions that the earliest date for which figures below country level are available for the number of children for whom child benefit was paid is August 1999. At that date there were 1,130 thousand such children in Yorkshire and Humberside and 21,000 in the City of York constituency. The latest available figures, for November 2003, appear on the Inland Revenue website, at http://www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/stats/child benefit/menu.htm

When comparing these figures, note that between each August and November, the number of such children drops by around 2 per cent. This is because from early September each year awards no longer cover young people aged 16 to 18 unless they remain in full-time non-advanced education.

In 1997–98 the weekly rate of child benefit was £11.05 for the first child and £9.00 for the second and subsequent children. The current rates are £16.50, and £11.05, respectively.

Emissions Trade Schemes

Miss McIntosh: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the revenue implications for the Government of (a) the EU and (b) UK emissions trade schemes. [191542]

John Healey: The Government have yet to take final decisions on the implementation of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and therefore it is too early to say what the impact would be in terms of revenue to the Exchequer.

In the year 2003–04, the UK ETS cost the Government £43 million in direct payments to the market participants.

Gangmaster Licensing Authority

Jim Sheridan: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the data collated from the 46 ACU forms that are returned to the Inland Revenue Agricultural Compliance Unit by those using the services of a gangmaster or employment agency will be made available to the Gangmasters Licensing Authority that is to be established under the provisions of the Gangmasters (Licensing) Act 2004. [192582]

Dawn Primarolo: The Inland Revenue can only release information to another Government Department where there is appropriate legal authority (a gateway) for it to do so. The Gangmaster Licensing Act contains such a gateway, which will allow the Inland Revenue to pass to the Gangmaster Licensing Authority information that relates to the operations of a person acting as a gangmaster.

Gas Prices

Mr. Laurence Robertson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the extra revenue the Exchequer will receive as a result of rising gas prices; and if he will make a statement. [192456]

 
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John Healey: Updated forecasts of the public finances incorporating the impact of higher gas prices will be published in the pre-Budget report later this year.

Hospices (VAT Relief)

Lady Hermon: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what plans he has to exempt (a) adult and (b) child hospices from the payment of VAT. [192343]

John Healey: The Government recognises the valuable contribution of hospices in providing high quality palliative care. The care services of a hospice are not chargeable with VAT and, in addition, charitable hospices benefit from a number of specific VAT zero rates on their purchases. However under our long-standing formal agreements with our European partners, we are permitted to keep our existing zero rates but may not extend them or introduce new ones.

Household Income (Tax Take)

Hugh Bayley: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what percentage of household income was paid in national taxes by a household on average income where the household was a (a) single person of working age, (b) single pensioner, (c) childless couple of working age, (d) pensioner couple, (e) single parent with (i) one and (ii) two or more children and (f) couple with (A) one and (B) two or more children in (1) 1997 and (2) 2003–04. [191239]

Mr. Timms: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.

Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Hugh Bayley, dated 19 October 2004:

As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking what percentage of household income was paid in national taxes by a household on average income where the household was a (a) single person of working age, (b) single pensioner, (c) childless couple of working age, (d) pensioner couple, (e) single parent with (i) one and (ii) two or more children and (f) couple with (A) one and (B) two or more children in (1) 1997 and (2) 2003–04 (191239).

The proportion of household income that was paid in taxes in 1997–98 by household type can be obtained from Table 8 of "The effects of taxes and benefits on household income 1997–1998", published in Economic Trends (ONS), April 1999 and available on the National Statistics website at: http://www.statistics. gov.uk/articles/economic trends/taxes&%20benefits effects on household income 97–98.pdf.

Similar information for 2002–03 (the latest year for which data are available) can be obtained from Table 23 of "The effects of taxes and benefits on household income, 2002–03", published on the National Statistics website on 6 May 2004 at: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/taxesbenefits and in Economic Trends (ONS), June 2004. The analyses include measures of income inequality for households in the United Kingdom as a whole based on data from the Expenditure and Food Survey (the Family and Expenditure Survey in 1997–98). This is a sample survey covering about 6,000 to 7,000 households in the UK and sample sizes for sub groups of households are only sufficient to give approximate estimates.

 
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Table 8 (Appendix 1): Summary of the effects of taxes and benefits, by household type⁽¹²⁾, 1997–98 Average per household (£ per year)

	Retired households				Non-Retired households
	1 adult Men	1 adult Women	All 1 adult	2 or more adults	1 adult Men	1 adult Women	All 1 adult
Original income	5,006	2,568	3,219	9,693	15,030	11,662	13,793
plus Cash benefits	4,690	4,992	4,911	6,656	1,695	2,015	1,812
Gross income	9,696	7,560	8,130	16,349	16,725	13,677	15,605
less Direct taxes and employees' NIC	1,349	870	998	2,249	3,731	2,890	3,422
Disposable income	8,347	6,690	7,132	14,100	12,993	10,787	12,183
Equivalised disposable income	13,684	10,953	11,682	13,618	21,301	17,683	19,972
less Indirect taxes	1,640	1,093	1,239	3,065	2,603	2,073	2,408
Post-tax income	6,707	5,596	5,893	11,035	10,390	8,714	9,775
plus Benefits in kind	1,930	2,363	2,247	3,240	762	831	787
Final income	8,637	7,959	8,140	14,275	11,152	9,545	10,562

Average per household (£ per year)

	Non-Retired households
	2 adults	3 or more adults	1 adult with children	2 adults with 1 child	2 adults with 2 children	2 adults with 3 or more children	3 or more adults with children	All house-holds
Original income	27,241	35,439	4,943	26,337	30,047	24,437	31,721	19,680
plus Cash benefits	1,868	2,758	5,515	1,982	2,018	4,058	3,724	3,304
Gross income	29,109	38,198	10,457	30,319	32,064	28,495	35,445	22,985
less Direct taxes and employees' NIC	6,410	7,570	1,049	6,674	7,130	5,487	6,842	4,583
Disposable income	22,699	30,628	9,408	23,646	24,934	23,007	28,604	18,402
Equivalised disposable income	22,179	19,981	9,578	19,383	17,295	13,255	15,343	17,196
less Indirect taxes	4,429	6,414	2,243	4 657	4,714	4,599	6,883	3,717
Post-tax income	18,270	24,214	7,164	18,989	20,219	18,409	21,721	14,685
plus Benefits in kind	1,414	3,501	4,981	3,362	5,240	8,592	6,829	3,015
Final income	19,684	27,715	12,145	22,351	25,459	27,001	28,550	17,700

⁽¹²⁾ See Appendix 3 for definitions of retired households, adults and children.


Table 23 (Appendix 1): Summary of the effects of taxes and benefits, by household type⁽¹³⁾, 2002–03 Average per household (£ per year)

	Retired households				Non-Retired households
	1 adult Men	1 adult Women	All 1 adult	2 or more adults	1 adult Men	1 adult Women	All 1 adult
Original income	5,811	3,693	4,211	10,900	19,411	16,552	18,259
plus Cash benefits	5,797	6,403	6,255	8,432	1,729	2,259	1,942
Gross income	11,609	10,096	10,466	19,332	21,140	18,811	20,201
less Direct taxes and employees' NIC	1,329	939	1,034	2,400	4,599	3,961	4,342
Disposable income	10,280	9,157	9,432	16,932	16,541	14,849	15,859
Equivalised disposable income	16,811	15,005	15,447	16,287	27,117	24,343	25,998
less Indirect taxes	1,792	1,457	1,539	3,457	3,085	2,725	2,940
Post-tax income	8,488	7,701	7,893	13,476	13,457	12,124	12,919
plus Benefits in kind	3,092	3,526	3,420	4,983	897	1,062	963
Final income	11,580	11,227	11,313	18,458	14,353	13,186	13,883

Average per household (£ per year)

	Non-Retired households
	2 adults	3 or more adults	1 adult with children	2 adults with 1 child	2 adults with 2 children	2 adults with 3 or more children	3 or more adults with children	All house-holds
Original income	34,549	44,258	8,924	38,090	38,868	33,769	37,618	25,271
plus Cash benefits	1,814	2,545	6,930	2,222	2,448	5,677	4,362	3,958
Gross income	36,363	46,803	15,853	40,312	41,316	39,446	41,980	29,229
less Direct taxes and employees' NIC	8,053	9,475	1,418	9,139	8,959	7,967	7,542	5,746
Disposable income	28,310	37,327	14,435	31,172	32,356	31,478	34,438	23,483
Equivalised disposable income	27,613	24,060	14,478	25,589	22,344	18,025	17,782	21,899
less Indirect taxes	5,303	7,397	3,034	5,911	5,983	6,128	6,961	4,481
Post-tax income	23,007	29,931	11,402	25,261	26,374	25,350	27,477	19,002
plus Benefits in kind	1,948	4,587	7,114	5,099	8,087	13,261	9,987	4,413
Final income	24,955	34,517	18,516	30,360	34,461	38,612	37,464	23,415

⁽¹³⁾ See Appendix 2 for definitions of retired households, adults and children.


 
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